George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Work. This was usually the employment of women. The great charities of Tobias, physicians, &c., had reduced him to poverty.”
The interpretation timeline
Tob 2:19
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
Tob 2:19 · Douay-Rheims
“Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.”
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.